Mail-delivering device.



S. R. HERRlNG.

MAIL DELIVERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 7, 19!. L1%,257o Patented May 18, 1915.

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MAIL DELIVERING DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed April 7, 191.45. Serial No. 830,216.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. HERRING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Morton, in the county of Scott and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in lilail-Delivering Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a mail bag delivering device wherein the mail bag can be delivered to a train while traveling at high speed, the bag being conveyed thereto by means of the station device, which shoots said bag into the car on the passing of the train by the station.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character which is novel in form to insure the safe delivery of the mail bag to the car, and can be readily and easily set in operative position.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character which is automatically operated, simple in construction, reliable and eflicient in its operation, and inexpensive in manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side eleva tion of a delivering device constructed in accordance with the invention, showing a car and said device set for operation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a view similar to Fig. 3, with the parts shifted. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates a track, and B the car, both being of the ordinary well-known construction, and this car is provided with a doorway 10 in its side wall, as usual, so that mail bags can be exchanged between it and a station, the bags being delivered to the car in a manner presently described.

At one side of the track A is positioned the delivering device comprising a base 11 which is constructed of any suitable material and is stationarily mounted or anchored at a station, and has rising therefrom spaced vertical posts or uprights 12 which are fixed in the said base in any suitable manner. Supported at the upper ends of the posts or uprights 12, which are of equal length with respect to each other, is a horizontal cross beam 13 which extends toward the track for a distance and has arranged thereon a trip arm 14 connected thereby by means of a pivot 15 for swinging movement, the said trip arm being designed to control the delivering mechanism presently described.

Arranged beneath the extended end of the cross beam 13 and fixed to the post or upright 12 adjacent thereto is a barrel or casing 16 which is adapted to receive a mail bag, and has working therein a piston or plunger head 17 secured to one end of a piston or plunger rod 18 working through a guide opening 19 formed in the post or upright 12 next to the track, the opposite end of the rod 18 being formed with a cross head 20 slidably engaging cross head guides 21 arranged in spaced parallel relation to each other between the uprights or posts 12 and fixed therein.

Surrounding the rod 18 is a coiled retractile spring 22, one end of which is connected to the upright or post 12 next to the track while its opposite end is connected to the cross head 20, and this spring serves to force the piston or plunger head 17 toward the open end of the barrel or casing 16 to shoot the mail bag therefrom through the doorway 10 in the side of the car to the interior thereof when the car is passing the station, the plunger being normally set and released in a manner presently described.

Connected to the cross head 20 is a cable 23 which is trained over a guide pulley 24L journaled in the other upright or post 12, and is further connected with a setting lever 25 pivoted in a bearing 26 on the base 11, and this lever is adapted to engage in a keeper 27 also on the base 11 to hold the plunger rod 18 retracted, and when the delivering device is set the lever 25 is removed from the keeper 27 and engaged in a keeper 28 on one of the posts or uprights 12 so as not to interfere or retard the shooting of the mail bag into the car when passing the station.

Connected to the cross rod 20 of the plunger or piston rod 18 is a second cable 29, the same being trained over a guide pulley 3O journaled in the post or upright 12 above the pulley 2a, and also is trained through guide members 81 mounted in the cross beam 13, while its opposite end is connected to a trip latch 32 hinged as at 33 for vertical swinging movement on the cross beam 13, the latch 32 being designed to be normally engaged with the trip arm 14; when the delivering device is set for the delivery of the mail bag to a passing car. The lever when engaging the latch 32 is projected into the path of the tripping lugs 84 mounted on and rising from the roof of the car B so that as the car approaches the station one of the lugs 34: will strike the trip arm 14:, causing it to swing for releasing the latch 82, and under the tension of the spring 22 the plunger is operated to shoot the bag from the casing 16 after it has been placed therein into the car when passing the station, the bag being shot. through the doorway 10 in the side wall of the car. lhe delivering mechanism is set by the lever 25 in a manner as hereinbefore described.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction and manner of operation of the device will be clearly understood, and therefore a more extended explanation has been omitted.

What is claimed is A mail bag delivering device comprising a supporting frame, a barrel on said G'opies of this patent may be obtained for frame and adapted to be directed toward a track, a piston working within the barrel andhaving a stem slidable in one member of the frame, a cross head on said stem and having notches in opposite ends, guide rods disposed in the frame above and below the head and received in the notches therein, a triplever pivotally supported on the frame and adapted to be actuated by a passing car upon the track, an arm pivotally supported'on the frame and engaged by the trip lever, a coiled retractile spring surrounding the stem and having one end engaging the frame and its opposite end connected to the cross head, a flexible connection joined to the cross head and also to the pivoted arm.

for retracting the piston on the movement of the arm into position for engaging the trip lever, keepers permanently mounted in spaced relation to each other, and means connected with the cross head and engageable with either keeper for holding the pis-- ton retracted or permitting it to be extended on the release of the arm from the trip lever.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL R. HERRING. Witnesses:

WM. I. MOKAY, T. A. GADDIS.

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